Wednesday, August 3, 2011

More to the Point: We Are Ruled by Idiots


Le Roi du Déluge, Louis XVI

The calls for Revolt and Revolution are growing more and more strident and shrill every day. As the upshot of the Debt Crisis Crisis Deal settles in -- and there is much more of this Satan Sandwich to come -- people are OUTRAGED!!!™, and not simply in the Left-o-sphere, oh no.

The OUTRAGE!!!™ is spreading this time well beyond the comfortable confines of Blogtopia® (h/t Skippy the Bush Kangaroo) and into the masses, and it is not being "injected" by the handful of constitutional malcontents who see it as their job to stir up discontent.

No, this time the Anger and the Bile in the Gorge is spreading nationally, among all kinds of people, most of whom have no interest in or contact with the Blog-o-sphere, Left or Right (or Decline to State), due to the fact that the People's Screwage is, like that in Wisconsin earlier this year, right out in the open -- with much more to come -- was deliberated for months, and it is a deeply, profoundly disturbing vision Our Rulers have set for the rest of us.

The Deal essentially institutionalizes the Status Quo -- which is miserable for millions upon millions of Americans, more every day. "More misery for more people!" is its obvious motto. There is not only nothing whatever in the Deal to alleviate any of this misery, there is nothing on the horizon to do so. Quite literally, just as in most of the West, the People's well being is being sacrificed, right out in the open, on the altar of finance and greed.

"Hope" is changed to "Fury."

The Fury has yet to be channeled into into a Revolt that can actually overcome the Power that is being consolidated and reinforced every second of every day. One after another, the stream of revolts at home and abroad this year has failed to actually reverse -- or even to substantively modify -- the March of Oppression and Greed which is overwhelming simple common sense.

How long will it be before the metaphorical calls for Tumbrils and Guillotines are replaced by the real thing?

Whatever the course of events:

We are ruled by idiots.

5 comments:

  1. Hey Che,

    We've started a wiki to construct a new Constitution. I hope you'll join that conversation at:

    http://apeoplesconstitution.wikispaces.com/

    Helen

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  2. Helen,

    I signed up. Where's the action at?

    Cheers,

    Ché

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  3. Hey, I'm actioning all over 'da place - come on in! In fact, I'm worried that I'm discouraging others by overactivity - am now trying to assemble pages of basic information and terminology for our deliberations. I'd be very glad for any references or resources you want to contribute.

    Thanks,

    Helen

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  4. Still not quite sure how to work the danged thing, but I posted some of my noodling about Constitutional stuff from January over there, "Concepts, purposes, and so forth."

    I'm not too keen about the focus on the revival of the Confederation/Confederacy, tho. I think I'm more of an Abolitionist... ;-)

    Cheers,

    Ché

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  5. Yes, I had honestly left that Confederation question completely alone since I haven't had time to study the EU models that poster referred to.

    And I just now read your new page at the wiki; enormous thanks for what I think is an amazingly sensible contribution.

    Big cheers,

    Helen

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